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Introduction
Christ’s return is the center of our hope
Quote: The Long Journey Home, by Os Guinness.
If we are not careful, our hope for the Lord’s return can be dulled by diversion.
Guinness comments:
Modern society itself is one grand diversion—the Republic of Entertainment.
With our shops, shows, sports, games, tourism, recreation, cosmetics, plastic surgery, virtual reality, and the endless glorification of health and youth, our culture is a vast conspiracy to make us forget our transience and mortality.
We turn away.
We tune out.
Alibis for reality-escape artists are on every hand.
“Modern man is drinking and drugging himself out of awareness,” psychologist Ernest Becker wrote, “or he spends his time shopping, which is the same thing.”7
[J.
Scott Duvall, Revelation, ed.
Mark L. Strauss and John H. Walton, Teach the Text Commentary Series (Grand Rapids, MI: Baker Books, 2014), 260–261.]
Main Thought:
Jesus, the Captain of Our Salvation, is coming back in power and glory to conquer His enemies!
Sub-Introduction:
Briefly review the earlier part of Chapter 19.
I. Heaven Opened Once for All (Rev.
19:11-16)
A. Our Captain’s Coming (Rev.
19:11-14)
Note - two interjections ("Behold" in v. 11, "Come" in v. 17)
1.
He Comes to Contend Righteously (Rev.
19:11)
White horse = Triumph; called "Faithful & True;" judges & makes war in righteousness
2.
He Comes Crowned in Majesty (Rev.
19:12-13)
Eyes - "AS a flame of fire" = piercing and scrupulously investigative judgment
Head - Crowns (diadems) - Majesty / True Sovereign
Names - "Faithful and True" - reliable / trustworthy (see Laodicea Rev. 3:14, and Rev. 22:6); Written (like Scripture, Ps. 138:2; 119:89) but known only to Him (see also Is. 62:2; Rev. 3:12; Lk. 10:22); "The Word of God" - Jn. 1:1-3; 1Tim.
3:16; Creator, now Judge; "King of kings and Lord of lords" - tells of His supremacy (1Tim.
6:15)
Vesture - "cast about" / wrapped with a garment baptized in blood
βεβαμμένον perf.
pass.
part.
βάπτω (G970) to dip.
Perf.
indicates a past completed action w. a continuing state or results.
The blood staining the garment of the conquering Messiah is not His own, but the blood of the enemy shed in conflict (Mounce; Isa.
63:1-6).
[Cleon L. Rogers Jr. and Cleon L. Rogers III, The New Linguistic and Exegetical Key to the Greek New Testament, Accordance electronic ed.
(Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 1998), paragraph 44655.
https://accordance.bible/link/read/GNT_Key#44655]
In Rev. 5:6 blood = redemption, but now pictures judgment
3.
He Comes with Heaven’s Company (Rev.
19:14)
Armies - having no weapons
Clothing - similar as the Bride (see Rev. 19:8); Bride = clean & bright; Armies = white & clean
In a quick summary of this periballw [see above, here the word is from ἐνδύω] verb in Revelation, it is significant that clothing identifies the character of the wearer.
For instance, saints will be clothed in white (Rev.
3:5, 18; 4:4; 7:9, 13); an angel in a cloud (10:1); two witnesses in sackcloth (11:3); the woman in the sun (12:1); the Harlot in purple and scarlet (17:7); Babylon in fine linen, purple and scarlet (18:16); and the Bride in fine linen, clean and white (19:8).
[Thomas M. Strouse, To the Seven Churches: A Commentary on the Apocalypse of Jesus Christ, Selected Works of Dr. Thomas M. Strouse (Bible Baptist Theological Press, 40 Country Squire Rd., Cromwell, CT 06461, 2013).]
B. Our Captain’s Campaign (Rev.
19:15-16)
1.
His Enemies Are Subdued (Rev.
19:15)
Sharp sword - Long Thracian Sword
Church in Pergamos - Satan's Seat (Throne of the Beast), Doctrine of Balaam (False Prophet's Deception & the World's Reception of Idolatry to the Beast), Doctrine of Nicolaitans (Kings of the earth leading rebellion against God)
Where Antipas the Faithful was martyred
Iron Rod - unyielding & absolute - rod = chastisement, correction, goading, etc. (See Ps. 2:9-11; Is. 11:4).
Thyatira (Jezebel - slaying God's prophets) - Rev. 2:27
Overcomer receives power over the nations & the Morning Star
Treading the Winepress - Refer to Is. 63:1-6; see Rev. 14:19-20
2.
He Reigns Supreme (Rev.
19:16)
Vesture & Thigh - part of the garment that covers the thigh; most conspicuous when riding a horse
See also:
Application:
Our blessed hope is the return of Christ.
We spend extraordinary amounts of energy teaching about faith and love, and rightly so, but what about hope?
Christians often have a hard time explaining hope and knowing where exactly to place their hope.
Whereas love is oriented toward the present, hope points to the future.
The ultimate resting place for our hope is Christ himself and his promise to return (“the blessed hope” in Titus 2:13).
The prayer of hope is “Come, Lord Jesus.”
Our hope is anchored in the assurance that God will not abandon his people but will return for them.
Jesus will return to resurrect and reward his people, judge the unrighteous, destroy evil, and transform creation.
[Duvall, 260.]
Transition: John has shown us how the heaven opened so Jesus & His armies could return to the earth in final judgment, now, let's take a look at something John saw in the sun:
II.
An Angel Standing in the Sun, Calling God’s Clean-up Crew (Rev.
19:17-18)
A. The Gathering-Call (Rev.
19:17)
Angel "standing in the sun"
Fowls - used only three times - Rev. 18:2 (Babylon, the cage of every unclean fowl), here (Rev.
19:17), and Rev. 19:21
Name of the feast - "the supper of the great God"
B. The Goal - Consume the Enemies’ Carcass’ (Rev.
19:18)
"That" - purpose
The words of Jesus:
Contrast with the supper of Rev. 19:9!
Note - all classes of people die
Application:
Christ will return as a mighty warrior ram rather than a docile lamb.
There is the constant danger when presenting Christ in a love-starved culture to overemphasize God’s love to the exclusion of his holiness.
Jesus will return in power because there is a final battle to be fought against the enemies of God.
We dare not attempt to domesticate the Lion.
He comes to destroy his enemies and establish his universal reign.
Mounce warns, “Any view of God that eliminates judgment and his hatred of sin in the interest of an emasculated doctrine of sentimental affection finds no support in the strong and virile realism of the Apocalypse.”
[Duvall, 260.]
Transition: The Heaven Opened, the Angel Beckoned, now notice lastly:
III.
The Beast & False Prophet Taken into Custody (Rev.
19:19-21)
A. The Beast & Earth-Kings Begin the Combat (Rev.
19:19)
This is the campaign of Armageddon
Bible Background:
Here
Timing - the Final Days of the Great Tribulation
Location - gathering of the earth-armies under the Beast in Megiddo
B. The Conclusion of the Captain’s Campaign (Rev.
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